Bob Sinclar

Whilst still in his teenage years La Friant began his experimenting with music production and DJing, and later formed the company Yellow Productions in 1993 alongside Alain Ho. Some of the label’s earliest releases included La Friant's downtempo hip-hop act the Mighty Bop’s “Messe Pour le Temps Present”, Réminiscence Quartet’s “Roda Mundo” and Le Friant’s LP debut “The Mighty Bop Meet DJ Cam et la Funk Mob”. The label was also home to the DJs Dimitri from Paris and Kid Loco, and issued two more or La Friant’s Mighty Bop records “La Vague Sensorielles” and Autres Voix, Autres Blues” before Bob Sinclar was born.

With a desire to impart some of his peace and love orientated tracks to French house music, La Friant borrowed the name Bob Sinclar from the film “La Magnifique”, and released his debut Sinclar EP “A Space Funk Project” in 1997. With no time wasted, La Friant soon completed Sinclar’s full-length debut “Paradise”, which was issued on Yellow Productions in the summer of 1998. The album introduced the DJ and record producer to a new club audience and spawned the singles “My Only Love”, “The Ghetto” and “Ultimate Funk”. After a series of remixes for the likes of Bangalter, Ian Pooley, and Yellow Productions’ Tom & Joyce, La Friant worked as the Mighty Bop once again, later releasing the full length “Spin My Hits”.

Bob Sinclar’s debut U.S. album “Champs Elysées” appeared in 2000 on Subliminal Records, and a year later, a collection of Cerrone mixes was released as “Cerrone by Bob Sinclar”. The DJ’s success and exposure began to pick up momentum at this point with the 2006 release of the album “Western Dream”. The first single taken from the album “Love Generation” proved to be one of Sinclar’s biggest and most recognisable hits, later topping the charts in over four countries. Further singles from the album included “World, Hold On (Children of the Sky)”, “Rock This Party” (Everybody Dance Now)”, and “Tennessee”.

In 2007 Sinclar released the mixtape CD “Soundz of Freedom”, featuring contributions from the likes of Tocadisco and Axwell, followed by the full-length “Born in ’69” in 2009. Taking a new direction with his next studio release, “Born in ’69” dropped the disco-infused stylings of his earlier work focusing more on a dancehall-driven sound. The DJ collaborated with Sly & Robbie in 2010 to release his reggae-influenced “Made in Jamaica”, which featured reggae reworks of his biggest hits “Love Generation” and World, Hold On”. The album “Disco Crash” arrived 2012 with a return to La Friant’s club form, hosting the vocal contributions of Sean Paul, Sophie Ellis-Bexter, and Pitbull.